I come in. I'm going to sketch, I'm going to drape, I don't know what I'm going to do.
I've started running three or four times a week, which prompts millions of sketch ideas.
Nobody wants to see sketch comedy that's the same sketch they've seen time and time again, or that's just a rehash of that thing.
I did sketch comedy for years. Ive always enjoyed it.
I never set out to do a sketch show.
When you audition for things, there's pressure to go in there with a complete performance, and it's kind of unfair because, if you get it, you'll have rehearsal and talk about it, and you'll have plenty of time with the script. So, for me, I really do feel like an audition is a sketch of what you might do.
A fine suggestion, a sketch with great feeling, can be as expressive as the most finished product.
If you wanna be an artist carry sketch pad with you, and sketch everything you see. Get so you can draw anything and it looks like what it's supposed to be. It's a lot of work, but if you really have it in you, it's not like work. It becomes fun.
In sketch comedy, wear your character like a hat, not a suit of armor.
The sketch hunter moves through life as he finds it, not passing negligently the things he loves, but stopping to know them, and to note them down in the shorthand of his sketchbook.
When you're writing a sketch, it has to be surrounded by a situation. It can't just be out of the air.
I want to see Bob Dylan do sketch comedy. I'm a huge Bob Dylan fan.
That's what I love about sketch comedy: a sketch is five minutes, then it goes dark, and there's the potential for something else.
Like I said, a sketch is one joke. They shouldn't really be more than a minute, two minutes. There are some shows where the sketch goes on for five minutes. It's like, "I get it! I'm already bored. I did like the joke, but I don't anymore, because you went on too long. "
When somebody would come in with a sketch that was not so good, you figured out in a room how to make that sketch work.
If you are not skillful enough to sketch a man jumping out of a window in the time it takes him to fall from the fourth storey to the ground, you will never be able to produce great works.
When a sketch comes into this three-dimensional form and everybody contributes, it's really fantastic.
Almost every college playwright or sketch or improv comedian was sort of aware of Christopher Durang - even kids in high school. His short plays were so accessible to younger people and I think that was inspirational to me.
I have friends who will say, "Oh you gotta come and see our show. " And the first thing I say is, "Is it sketch or improv?" I'll go in a minute to see a sketch show. I love sketch; it's my favorite form. But if it's all improv, they're either very good and it's annoying how good they are and it makes you feel bad, or they're not too good then you're sweating for them. And you don't want to sweat for them, see actors repeating each other's lines.
A sketch of a man facing to the right.
